On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:50:43PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:> > Ah. So being listed in the maintainers list doesn't mean someone is actually> > a maintainer it makes sense to forward patches to?> > Sure it does.> > It just doesn't mean that they should send stuff to _me_.> > Did you not understand my point about scalability? I can work with a> limited number of people, and those people can work with _their_ limited> number of people etc etc.> > The MAINTAINERS file is _not_ a list of people I work with on a daily> basis. In fact, I don't necessarily even recognize the names of all those> people.

I understand that the sort of careful hierarchy that drives thisprocess is, by nature, an informal thing. But it would still be niceif _suggestions_ on how it worked were written down somewhere. Whenyou've got patches that don't have a clear relevant maintainer, itwould be nice to have something more specific than "post tolinux-kernel and pray someone picks it up" to run with!